REVIEWS AND POWERSTONES PLSSS!!!!!Chapter 58: Lightning Style - Chidori
"They've started fleeing. Three people are moving northeast—they should be planning to rendezvous with Konoha's White Yaksha. One person is moving due east—looks like they're planning to hold the rear and delay our pursuit!"
A Mist shinobi running among the group suddenly spoke up.
"They discovered us? As expected."
Kirishima Shinya snorted coldly.
Then he asked, "Suiro, can you identify who's holding the rear?"
"It's Hatake Kakashi, son of the White Fang of Konoha. He has a transplanted Sharingan from the Uchiha clan—very easy to identify."
The sensory ninja named Suiro answered.
Kakashi was somewhat famous among the Mist shinobi. However, he wasn't famous for being a genius who became jonin at twelve, but because he had a father with a thunderous reputation, and also because he'd transplanted a Sharingan, setting a precedent for non-clan members to legally possess the Sharingan.
"The White Fang's son?"
Kirishima Shinya narrowed his eyes and asked, "Do we have detailed intelligence?" Out of respect for that notorious old predecessor the White Fang, he felt it necessary to treat the White Fang's son cautiously.
"I don't need to explain the capabilities of a two-tomoe Sharingan. Besides that, Hatake Kakashi has first-rate sword techniques and excels at Lightning and Earth Style. He's reportedly created a highly penetrative Lightning Style technique with considerable destructive power!"
"Excels at Lightning and Earth Style, plus first-rate sword techniques? Isn't that just another White Fang?"
The White Fang of Konoha, Hatake Sakumo, had struck terror into enemies with his elusive Earth Style techniques combined with extremely fast Lightning Style and sword techniques. Frankly speaking, he followed the same pattern as today's Yellow Flash Namikaze Minato and Shisui of the Body Flicker—all relied on extreme speed to crush opponents, taking their lives before they could even react.
Kirishima Shinya frowned, weighing his options. Staying behind to gang up on Hatake Kakashi would undoubtedly allow them to kill this son of the White Fang, but how much time it would take was uncertain. After all, this was the White Fang's son. If it dragged on too long and let the target escape, all their efforts would be wasted.
Therefore, they needed to split their forces.
One group would stay behind to entangle Hatake Kakashi while the rest continued forward to pursue the target.
His gaze lingered on the five jonin who'd accompanied him this time.
Kamaha was one of the village's rare Earth Style masters. Earlier, Kamaha had stealthily approached without alerting the targets to confirm the situation. Facing Hatake Kakashi, who excelled at Lightning Style, would be too disadvantageous. Moreover, he was skilled in sealing techniques—when they caught the target, they'd mainly rely on him to complete the Three-Tails' transfer and sealing. He definitely couldn't be left behind.
Suiro was a sensory ninja. They still needed him to continue tracking the target, so it was also inconvenient to leave him behind.
That left Gyokko, Kuronusa, and Hiegusa—three people.
"Gyokko, Kuronusa, you two deal with this Hatake Kakashi."
Kirishima Shinya issued his orders.
Among these three, Gyokko and Kuronusa were stronger. Leaving them behind to deal with Hatake Kakashi gave them better odds.
"Yes, Shinya-sama."
The two whose names were called responded in unison.
Half a minute later, they saw the white-haired youth holding a short sword, standing on a tree branch waiting for them. A small dog sat on his head. He wore a face mask, and his left eye was crimson with two black tomoe spinning within.
The saying that one shouldn't make eye contact with the Sharingan referred to the three-tomoe Sharingan.
Although the one-tomoe and two-tomoe Sharingan similarly provided tremendous amplification for genjutsu, for jonin with powerful mental strength, this level of genjutsu wasn't enough to trap them inextricably.
So Kirishima Shinya felt no fear as he observed this youth whose killing intent was boiling over.
At the same time, the two Mist shinobi named Gyokko and Kuronusa accelerated ahead of the others, charging wildly toward Hatake Kakashi. Before even getting close, Kuronusa completed his hand seals and deployed the Mist shinobi's signature technique—the Hidden Mist Jutsu!
White, hazy mist expanded outward with him at its center, obscuring his and Gyokko's figures. Naturally, Kirishima Shinya and the others further back also disappeared from Kakashi's field of vision.
The Sharingan was also known as the Eye of Insight, possessing excellent perceptive abilities.
However—
The two-tomoe Sharingan's perceptive ability was limited. Even the three-tomoe Sharingan could only see through part of this chakra-infused mist, unable to completely penetrate it like the Hyuga clan's Byakugan.
"Pakkun!"
Kakashi called out.
He hadn't dismissed the summoning technique. He'd kept Pakkun precisely because he needed to rely on Pakkun's nose to compensate for his insufficient perception—a countermeasure he'd devised after being hindered by the Hidden Mist Jutsu in previous battles with Mist shinobi.
"Kakashi, they've split their forces. You... watch your right front!"
Pakkun cried out in alarm.
Kakashi reacted quickly. His two-tomoe Sharingan could see through the dense fog within five or six meters around him. He swung his blade to knock down all the incoming senbon, but immediately after, shuriken came from another direction in succession.
"Kakashi, let's deal with these two enemies first!"
Pakkun said.
"Right!"
Kakashi responded, then said, "Tell me their positions."
He also understood that the Mist shinobi had superior numbers—he had no power to prevent them from splitting their forces. However, this also revealed that their target didn't seem to be the supplies they were escorting, nor himself. It seemed more like they were going after Rin and the others?
His heart filled with urgency.
But having learned the lesson from the mission to destroy Kannabi Bridge, he understood that the more urgent the situation, the less he could panic. Only by keeping his mind calm could he find a thread of survival in this emergency.
Actually, thinking calmly and carefully, the Mist choosing to split their forces was actually good news for him. If all the Mist shinobi had swarmed him, he could probably only barely hold them off for a while before certain death.
But now he only needed to face two enemies. This wasn't a certain death situation. As long as he could quickly eliminate these two enemies, he could catch up and support Rin and the others.
"Seven meters left front, eight meters right."
Pakkun softly reported two numbers.
In the next instant, after knocking down the flying shuriken, Kakashi sheathed his short sword. His right palm suddenly released extremely intense lightning, emitting a sharp noise like a thousand birds chirping in unison.
"Lightning Style: Chidori!"
Kakashi's self-created Lightning Style technique.
Then his entire person shot forward like a flying arrow, charging fiercely toward the left front. He broke through the seven-meter distance in an instant—so fast that Kuronusa had no time to deploy any defensive jutsu, only managing to swing his blade to block.
But this hundred-times-forged steel simply couldn't withstand the ball of lightning in Kakashi's palm. The blade snapped, and the lightning directly pierced through Kuronusa's left shoulder.
A jonin was still a jonin—his reaction speed was quite fast.
At the same time, rows of ice pillars grew from the right rear and crashed toward Kakashi.
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